LETTER: Development doesn’t affect Forest Lake

Brandi GregoryTuscaloosa

Published: Monday, July 1, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 11:57 p.m.

Development doesn’t affect Forest Lake

Dear Editor: I live in Forest Lake near 15th Street and Midtown. I don’t understand how anybody that lives in this area can be against a development on Hargrove Road. It isn’t going to be a high-rise and isn’t going to surround their houses.

If you look around this neighborhood, there are several two-story houses for students to rent being built right now. When you see the “Now Leasing for the Fall” signs in the yards, you know they’re directed at students. There are three-story apartments being built on Forest Lake Drive and 15th Street. There is construction going everywhere on 15th Street. I think that if people in this neighborhood want to protest, they’re protesting the wrong development.

I’ve lived in student housing like Aspen Heights wants to build. It will be a great place to live. We would be lucky to get one built in Tuscaloosa. Instead of protesting it, people should be thankful that they want to help Tuscaloosa build back the rental housing that was lost in the tornado.

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